Suzy Zail has worked as a lit­i­ga­tion lawyer, spe­cial­iz­ing in Fam­i­ly Law, but now writes full time. Among oth­er titles, she has writ­ten her father’s sto­ry, The Tat­tooed Flower, about his life as a child sur­vivor of the Holo­caust. Her nov­el, Play­ing for the Com­man­dant, about a young Jew­ish pianist at Auschwitz who is cho­sen to play for the camp com­man­dant, was a 2015 USS­BY Out­stand­ing Inter­na­tion­al Book and was hon­ored as an excep­tion­al book for use in social stud­ies class­rooms in the Notable Social Stud­ies Trade Books for Young Peo­ple List 2015.